Australia may increase its planned force of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrollers under a policy set out in a defense white paper expected within weeks, local media say.
The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth partnered with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer DDG 82 USS Lassen earlier this month to complete their first combined South China Sea presence operations.
While Talisman Saber dates back about a decade, this is the first centered in this area since the major increase in the U.S. Marine presence near Darwin, and the first to include Japanese forces.
Pluto has previously unsuspected mountains of water ice as high as the Rockies, while its moon Charon features spectacular canyons as much as 6 mi. deep.
“This agreement with TASL is significant because it demonstrates Boeing’s commitment to expanding its aerospace manufacturing footprint in India,” says Shelley Lavender, president of Boeing Military Aircraft.
A leading Australian defense think tank is urging Canberra to question the viability of the surface warship before committing to continuous construction of naval vessels in the country.
Mars One, the Dutch nonprofit trying to establish a growing human settlement on the Red Planet by the late 2020s, plans to use team challenge, isolation and rigorous interview strategies to cull its current international roster of 50 men and 50 women down to 24 prospective colonists.
The U.S. worldwide aircraft carrier presence will likely increase in the coming year, says Rear Adm. Jeff Harley, assistant deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans and strategy.
BOEING and AH-64E Apache industry partners General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Longbow Ltd. launched initiative with Polish Armaments Group (PGZ) to explore opportunities for collaboration with Polish industry. ARCA SPACE CORP. (unmanned aerial vehicles) will locate its headquarters and U.S. production facility at Las Cruces International Airport.
The U.S. Navy has awarded teammates Bell Helicopter and Boeing a contract for five V-22 Ospreys for Japan, marking the first foreign military sale of the tiltrotor. The $332.5 million contract includes the Block C aircraft, support, training and related equipment. “The versatile V-22 tiltrotor will allow Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force greatly enhanced capabilities, while providing an ideal platform for relief efforts in response to natural disasters,” the companies said in announcing the contract. The V-22 is in service with the U.S.
LAUREL, Maryland — Pluto’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere appears to be leaking across open space to collect on at least one of the poles of the dwarf planet’s large moon Charon, according to scientists processing data the New Horizons probe sent to Earth shortly before its closest approach to the two bodies.
Only a few short minutes into its June 28 flight, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 began to break apart, prompting the U.S. Air Force to exercise a rare responsibility to send destruct signals to the rocket.
Raytheon has turned to nontraditional suppliers to produce a lower-cost airframe for the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) in a move that also paves the way for a modular, interchangeable payload capability.
Mission managers now have settled in to wait for a brief signal Tuesday night that will let them know how the spacecraft fared in its intricately choreographed flyby.
For the U.S., Operation Talisman Saber provides an opportunity to train rigorously with an Australian alley that the U.S. says it will need to help secure the peace in the large expanses of the Asia-Pacific region.
Hovering above the action as U.S. Marines and Australian soldiers stormed the shore of Fog Bay this month as part of the Talisman Saber exercise was a DGI Phantom 2 Quadcopter capturing scenes from vantages previously unavailable.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott touted the defense relationship his country has developed with the U.S. and discounted any ill feelings that bond could cause with China
Deployments of 16 CubeSats from the Japanese segment of the International Space Station are planned through July 16, following the initial launchings of six Planet Labs small satellites July 13-14.
